For millennia, seeds have been freely available to use for farming and plant breeding without restriction. Within the past century, however, intellectual property rights (IPRs) have threatened this tradition. In response, a movement has emerged to counter the trend toward increasing consolidation of control and ownership of plant germplasm. One effort, the Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI, www...

The purpose of the seminar was to discuss matters related to intellectual property rights (IPRs) and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (the TRIPS Agreement) including recent developments in the area with particular emphasis on their implications for sustainable development. During the seminar four experts on IPR issues gave short presentations in which they ...

The progresses over the last few years of digital technologies, the rapid development of the Internet and of other colnmunication means, have caused an ever increasing need for protecting Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). The problem of the IPR protection for multimedia works exchanged through telematic networks have promoted industrial and research projects for the development of Electronic...

CI [1]'s work on Access to Knowledge (A2K [2]) is predicated upon the fact that intellectual property rights (IPRs) are a consumer issue, not just an issue for business. For example, the expansion of the scope and enforcement of intellectual property rights at the behest of rights holders impacts on consumers by inhibiting the sharing and development of culture, by denying consumers the freedom...

The mission of the Communications Signal Processing (CSP) Research Group (RG) operating within Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) and Department of Communications Engineering (DCE) of Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering is to conduct world-class research, train world-class graduates, create new technology and IPRs, and support society by transferring technology to...

CI [1]'s work on Access to Knowledge (A2K [2]) is predicated upon the fact that intellectual property rights (IPRs) are a consumer issue, not just an issue for business. For example, the expansion of the scope and enforcement of intellectual property rights at the behest of rights holders impacts on consumers by inhibiting the sharing and development of culture, by denying consumers the freedom...

CI [1]'s work on Access to Knowledge (A2K [2]) is predicated upon the fact that intellectual property rights (IPRs) are a consumer issue, not just an issue for business. For example, the expansion of the scope and enforcement of intellectual property rights at the behest of rights holders impacts on consumers by inhibiting the sharing and development of culture, by denying consumers the freedom...

I analyze the welfare implications of protecting intellectual property rights (IPRs) in developing countries through its impact on innovation, market structure, and technology transfer. FDI, tariffs, and cooperation are introduced to the strategic IPR literature. In a North-South framework, the Southern government sets the IPR policy strategically by anticipating the Northern firm’s decision on...